Оане Виссер
Biographic Data
| ID | 3577412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Оане Виссер |
| GIVEN NAMES | Оане |
| FAMILY NAME | Виссер |
| SIGNATURE | ВИССЕР О |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5673-4439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 374 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Not-so-digital platforms? Non-use, (in)appropriate technologies, and offline dimensions of digital agricultural services for smallholders in rural Africa
Platforms' high subscription rates hide limited, uneven, and short-lived smallholders' use. • Limited use reflects design flaws and socio-technical misfits, not farmers' deficits. • Top-down platform models reinforce power asymmetries and limit farmers' autonomy. • Peer networks, extension services, and low-tech tools often outperform platforms. • Human mediation is crucial for the overall functioning of digital Ag technologies
Artisanal fishers and COP29: Climate summit politics in Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea
The 2024 COP29 climate summit in Baku drew international attention to the Caspian Sea's ecological crisis, where delegates could observe oil rigs dotting rapidly receding waters. This article explores how artisanal fishers along Azerbaijan's Caspian shore navigate environmental degradation and marginalizing domestic policies while being excluded from climate diplomacy. Drawing on fieldwork and COP29 analysis, this article examines contradictions …
Working like Machines: Technological Upgrading and Labour in the Dutch Agri-food Chain
This article engages with the role of technological upgrading for work in agriculture, a sector commonly disregarded in debates about the future of work. Foregrounding migrant work in Dutch horticulture, it explores how technological innovation is connected to the scope and security of employment. Besides, it proposes a heuristic that connects workers' experience to sectoral dynamics and the wider agri-food chain. Our analysis reads data from a s…
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture
Towards a geography of window dressing and benign neglect: The state, donors and elites in Tajikistan’s trajectories of post-Soviet agrarian change
Western Agricultural Investors in Russia and Ukraine: From Fascination With Soil to Disappointment With Climate
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Introduction: Encounters After the Soviet Collapse: The Contemporary Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the former Soviet Union’s borders, cross border interactions between the former Soviet Union states and China have augmented, and particularly the impetus given by the Chinese authorities to the Belt and Road Initiative has increased the presence of various Chinese actors in the countries along China’s western border. Notably, China’s ‘going global’ has received increasingly scholarly a…
Persistent farmland imaginaries: Celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate
This article looks at how imaginaries of land and climate play a role in farmland investment discourses and practices. Foreign farmland investors in the fertile black earth region of Russia and Ukraine have ‘celebrated’ soil fertility while largely ignoring climatic factors. The article shows a centuries-long history of outsiders coming to the region lured by the fertile soils, while grossly underestimating climate which has had disastrous implic…
Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: Materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’
Over the past decade land has again moved to the centre of resource conflicts, agrarian struggles, and competing visions over the future of food and farming. This renewed interest in land necessitates asking the seemingly simple, but pertinent, question ‘what is land?’ To reach a more profound understanding of the uniqueness of land, and what distinguishes land from other resources, this symposium suggests the notion of ‘land imaginaries’ as a cr…
Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems
Drawing on our long-term research experiences, in this deliberately provocative but also reflexive paper we argue that international food and agriculture studies constitute a research area that would particularly benefit from insights obtained from research conducted in the world's peripheries-in this case, specifically from insights on East European food systems. Instead of seeing them as textbook case studies of undeveloped, traditional and hen…
Corporate social responsibility, coexistence and contestation: Large farms’ changing responsibilities vis-à-vis rural households in Russia
This article investigates the regionally varied changes in social support and responsibilities of large-scale farms vis-à-vis household plot holders and their rural communities in post-Soviet Russia. Ongoing marketisation puts pressure on the Soviet-inherited symbiosis between large farms and household plots. We observe that large farms’ shift to Anglophone-style, explicit Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) hides declining support for villager…
Post-socialist smallholders: Silence, resistance and alternatives
nThe majority of the world’s smallholders live in countries that experience(d) socialism, but they largely remain invisible in agrarian studies. This special issue puts the spotlight on postsocialist smallholders, asking whether, and how, they (1) fulfil important functions in society; (2) engage in resistance (against the state or corporate actors); and (3) constitute an alternative to the industrial agri-food system. We find that post-socialist…
Multicultural Vanguard? Sarajevo’s Interethnic Young Adults between Ethnic Categorisation and International Spaces
This article analyses how Sarajevo\\xe2\\x80\\x99s young adults from a middle class, interethnic background deal with the \\nrigid ethnic categorisation enforced by state institutions and society. Their strategies (exit, reframing, and \\npartial separation) appear to be unsatisfactory to the actors themselves, and wield generally no influence on the \\ninstitutions they wish to change. Three factors have been setting into motion this dynamic: fi…
Running out of farmland? Investment discourses, unstable land values and the sluggishness of asset making
This article critically analyzes the assumption that land is becoming increasingly scarce and that, therefore, farmland values are bound to rise across the globe. It investigates the process of land value creation, as well as its flipside: value erosion and stagnation, looking at the various mechanisms involved in each. As such, it is a study of how the financialization of agriculture affects the process of land commoditization. I show that, for …
The complex dynamics of agriculture as a financial asset: Introduction to symposium
The stock market and the steppe: The challenges faced by stock-market financed, Nordic farming ventures in Russia and Ukraine
Quiet Food Sovereignty’ as Food Sovereignty without a Movement? Insights from Post-socialist Russia
What does food sovereignty look like in settings where rural social movements are weak or non-existent, such as in countries with post-socialist, semi-authoritarian regimes? Focusing on Russia, we present a divergent form of food sovereignty. Building on the concept of ‘quiet sustainability’, we present a dispersed, muted, but clearly bottom-up variant we term ‘quiet food sovereignty’. In the latter, the role of the very productive smallholdings …
Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri‐food Sector: Risk and Regulation
This symposium introduction brings together two debates; the debate on global food prices and speculation, and the debate on so‐called global ‘land investment’ or ‘land grabbing’. Both debates are examining two sides of the same phenomenon – the growing role of private financial investors in the global agri‐food value chains and the myriad consequences of it. The symposium moves beyond the identification of finance as an exogenous factor to the t…
Is Russia the Emerging Global ‘Breadbasket’? Re-cultivation, Agroholdings and Grain Production
textabstractIts rise to the top group of global wheat exporters, the abundance of abandoned land, assumed yield gaps and the apparent ‘success’ of agroholdings, have nurtured expectations of Russia becoming a global ‘breadbasket’. It is argued here that becoming a global breadbasket is hindered by substantial costs of re-cultivation abandoned land, management and financial problems of megafarms and agroholdings, lack of infrastructure for exports…
State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts, new social movement organisations with a strong political orientation are emerging in Russia today. This sudden burst of civil activity, however, raises questions as to how genuine and independent…
Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: Understanding land grabbing in Russia
This paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of 'investor' countries, nor in the category of 'target' countries. Russia has large 'land reserves', since in the 1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is available, unused or e…
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc This article discusses popular explanations for the demise of farm enterprises in Mongolia, such as: reduced state funding, corrupt and self-interested rural elites, and the (supposed) drastic central privatisation policy. It argues that these factors are insufficient to explain the collectives' demise, as they are largely true also for Russia, where no widespread b…
Land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia: The World’s Largest Agricultural Land Reserves at Stake
Land grabbing’ in Africa by China, and other populous, high-income Asian countries such as South Korea, has received considerable attention, while land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia has gone largely unnoticed. However, as this article shows, foreign state and private companies are also acquiring vast areas of farmland in this region. The article first discusses the factors that make post-Soviet Eurasia such an attractive region for internationa…
Voicing past and present uncertainties
This article analyzes the politics of memory around the Estonian government's decision to relocate Tallinn's World War II memorial of a Soviet soldier. It shows why and how legitimizing national discourses resonated with and influenced personal narratives among ordinary Estonians. It also discusses discourses of Estonians who took a more critical stance on the relocation. The article argues that the dominant discourse in Estonia has been characte…
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis
Looking for new ways to interpret the failings of the neo-liberal economy, this article argues that financialised capitalism at the eve of the 2008 financial crisis showed striking analogies with the characteristic combination of oligopoly and informality of the Soviet economy at the eve of its collapse. State capture by oligopolists, a large "virtual economy", the inability of agencies to obtain insight into economic and financial operations, th…
Land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia: The World’s Largest Agricultural Land Reserves at Stake
Land grabbing’ in Africa by China, and other populous, high-income Asian countries such as South Korea, has received considerable attention, while land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia has gone largely unnoticed. However, as this article shows, foreign state and private companies are also acquiring vast areas of farmland in this region. The article first discusses the factors that make post-Soviet Eurasia such an attractive region for internationa…
Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: Understanding land grabbing in Russia
This paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of 'investor' countries, nor in the category of 'target' countries. Russia has large 'land reserves', since in the 1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is available, unused or e…
Quiet Food Sovereignty’ as Food Sovereignty without a Movement? Insights from Post-socialist Russia
What does food sovereignty look like in settings where rural social movements are weak or non-existent, such as in countries with post-socialist, semi-authoritarian regimes? Focusing on Russia, we present a divergent form of food sovereignty. Building on the concept of ‘quiet sustainability’, we present a dispersed, muted, but clearly bottom-up variant we term ‘quiet food sovereignty’. In the latter, the role of the very productive smallholdings …
Running out of farmland? Investment discourses, unstable land values and the sluggishness of asset making
This article critically analyzes the assumption that land is becoming increasingly scarce and that, therefore, farmland values are bound to rise across the globe. It investigates the process of land value creation, as well as its flipside: value erosion and stagnation, looking at the various mechanisms involved in each. As such, it is a study of how the financialization of agriculture affects the process of land commoditization. I show that, for …
Restructuring Postponed? Large Russian Farm Enterprises 'Coping with the Market
The continued existence and predominance of large farm enterprises (LFEs) in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy is analysed using theories of transaction costs, coordination mechanisms and networks. A comparative analysis is presented of farm restructuring in two, highly contrasting survey regions. That analysis shows that LFEs have undertaken only partial restructuring, which has not lead to radical increases in output…
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture
Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems
Drawing on our long-term research experiences, in this deliberately provocative but also reflexive paper we argue that international food and agriculture studies constitute a research area that would particularly benefit from insights obtained from research conducted in the world's peripheries-in this case, specifically from insights on East European food systems. Instead of seeing them as textbook case studies of undeveloped, traditional and hen…
The stock market and the steppe: The challenges faced by stock-market financed, Nordic farming ventures in Russia and Ukraine
Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: Materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’
Over the past decade land has again moved to the centre of resource conflicts, agrarian struggles, and competing visions over the future of food and farming. This renewed interest in land necessitates asking the seemingly simple, but pertinent, question ‘what is land?’ To reach a more profound understanding of the uniqueness of land, and what distinguishes land from other resources, this symposium suggests the notion of ‘land imaginaries’ as a cr…
The State of Agrarian Reform in the Former Soviet Union
(2001). The State of Agrarian Reform in the Former Soviet Union. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 885-901
The complex dynamics of agriculture as a financial asset: Introduction to symposium
Is Russia the Emerging Global ‘Breadbasket’? Re-cultivation, Agroholdings and Grain Production
textabstractIts rise to the top group of global wheat exporters, the abundance of abandoned land, assumed yield gaps and the apparent ‘success’ of agroholdings, have nurtured expectations of Russia becoming a global ‘breadbasket’. It is argued here that becoming a global breadbasket is hindered by substantial costs of re-cultivation abandoned land, management and financial problems of megafarms and agroholdings, lack of infrastructure for exports…
State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts, new social movement organisations with a strong political orientation are emerging in Russia today. This sudden burst of civil activity, however, raises questions as to how genuine and independent…
Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri‐food Sector: Risk and Regulation
This symposium introduction brings together two debates; the debate on global food prices and speculation, and the debate on so‐called global ‘land investment’ or ‘land grabbing’. Both debates are examining two sides of the same phenomenon – the growing role of private financial investors in the global agri‐food value chains and the myriad consequences of it. The symposium moves beyond the identification of finance as an exogenous factor to the t…
Corporate social responsibility, coexistence and contestation: Large farms’ changing responsibilities vis-à-vis rural households in Russia
This article investigates the regionally varied changes in social support and responsibilities of large-scale farms vis-à-vis household plot holders and their rural communities in post-Soviet Russia. Ongoing marketisation puts pressure on the Soviet-inherited symbiosis between large farms and household plots. We observe that large farms’ shift to Anglophone-style, explicit Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) hides declining support for villager…
Towards a geography of window dressing and benign neglect: The state, donors and elites in Tajikistan’s trajectories of post-Soviet agrarian change
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis
Looking for new ways to interpret the failings of the neo-liberal economy, this article argues that financialised capitalism at the eve of the 2008 financial crisis showed striking analogies with the characteristic combination of oligopoly and informality of the Soviet economy at the eve of its collapse. State capture by oligopolists, a large "virtual economy", the inability of agencies to obtain insight into economic and financial operations, th…
Introduction: Encounters After the Soviet Collapse: The Contemporary Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the former Soviet Union’s borders, cross border interactions between the former Soviet Union states and China have augmented, and particularly the impetus given by the Chinese authorities to the Belt and Road Initiative has increased the presence of various Chinese actors in the countries along China’s western border. Notably, China’s ‘going global’ has received increasingly scholarly a…
Persistent farmland imaginaries: Celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate
This article looks at how imaginaries of land and climate play a role in farmland investment discourses and practices. Foreign farmland investors in the fertile black earth region of Russia and Ukraine have ‘celebrated’ soil fertility while largely ignoring climatic factors. The article shows a centuries-long history of outsiders coming to the region lured by the fertile soils, while grossly underestimating climate which has had disastrous implic…
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc This article discusses popular explanations for the demise of farm enterprises in Mongolia, such as: reduced state funding, corrupt and self-interested rural elites, and the (supposed) drastic central privatisation policy. It argues that these factors are insufficient to explain the collectives' demise, as they are largely true also for Russia, where no widespread b…
Post-socialist smallholders: Silence, resistance and alternatives
nThe majority of the world’s smallholders live in countries that experience(d) socialism, but they largely remain invisible in agrarian studies. This special issue puts the spotlight on postsocialist smallholders, asking whether, and how, they (1) fulfil important functions in society; (2) engage in resistance (against the state or corporate actors); and (3) constitute an alternative to the industrial agri-food system. We find that post-socialist…
Multicultural Vanguard? Sarajevo’s Interethnic Young Adults between Ethnic Categorisation and International Spaces
This article analyses how Sarajevo\\xe2\\x80\\x99s young adults from a middle class, interethnic background deal with the \\nrigid ethnic categorisation enforced by state institutions and society. Their strategies (exit, reframing, and \\npartial separation) appear to be unsatisfactory to the actors themselves, and wield generally no influence on the \\ninstitutions they wish to change. Three factors have been setting into motion this dynamic: fi…
The State of Agrarian Reform in the Former Soviet Union
(2001). The State of Agrarian Reform in the Former Soviet Union. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 885-901
Restructuring Postponed? Large Russian Farm Enterprises 'Coping with the Market
The continued existence and predominance of large farm enterprises (LFEs) in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy is analysed using theories of transaction costs, coordination mechanisms and networks. A comparative analysis is presented of farm restructuring in two, highly contrasting survey regions. That analysis shows that LFEs have undertaken only partial restructuring, which has not lead to radical increases in output…
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis
Looking for new ways to interpret the failings of the neo-liberal economy, this article argues that financialised capitalism at the eve of the 2008 financial crisis showed striking analogies with the characteristic combination of oligopoly and informality of the Soviet economy at the eve of its collapse. State capture by oligopolists, a large "virtual economy", the inability of agencies to obtain insight into economic and financial operations, th…
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc
Institutional Transformation in the Agricultural Sector of the former Soviet Bloc This article discusses popular explanations for the demise of farm enterprises in Mongolia, such as: reduced state funding, corrupt and self-interested rural elites, and the (supposed) drastic central privatisation policy. It argues that these factors are insufficient to explain the collectives' demise, as they are largely true also for Russia, where no widespread b…
Land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia: The World’s Largest Agricultural Land Reserves at Stake
Land grabbing’ in Africa by China, and other populous, high-income Asian countries such as South Korea, has received considerable attention, while land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia has gone largely unnoticed. However, as this article shows, foreign state and private companies are also acquiring vast areas of farmland in this region. The article first discusses the factors that make post-Soviet Eurasia such an attractive region for internationa…
Voicing past and present uncertainties
This article analyzes the politics of memory around the Estonian government's decision to relocate Tallinn's World War II memorial of a Soviet soldier. It shows why and how legitimizing national discourses resonated with and influenced personal narratives among ordinary Estonians. It also discusses discourses of Estonians who took a more critical stance on the relocation. The article argues that the dominant discourse in Estonia has been characte…
Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: Understanding land grabbing in Russia
This paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of 'investor' countries, nor in the category of 'target' countries. Russia has large 'land reserves', since in the 1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is available, unused or e…
Is Russia the Emerging Global ‘Breadbasket’? Re-cultivation, Agroholdings and Grain Production
textabstractIts rise to the top group of global wheat exporters, the abundance of abandoned land, assumed yield gaps and the apparent ‘success’ of agroholdings, have nurtured expectations of Russia becoming a global ‘breadbasket’. It is argued here that becoming a global breadbasket is hindered by substantial costs of re-cultivation abandoned land, management and financial problems of megafarms and agroholdings, lack of infrastructure for exports…
State marionettes, phantom organisations or genuine movements? The paradoxical emergence of rural social movements in post-socialist Russia
Of all the rural social movements in the world, those in post-socialist Russia have been considered to be among the weakest. Nevertheless, triggered by the neo-liberal reforms in the countryside, state attention to agriculture and rising land conflicts, new social movement organisations with a strong political orientation are emerging in Russia today. This sudden burst of civil activity, however, raises questions as to how genuine and independent…
Quiet Food Sovereignty’ as Food Sovereignty without a Movement? Insights from Post-socialist Russia
What does food sovereignty look like in settings where rural social movements are weak or non-existent, such as in countries with post-socialist, semi-authoritarian regimes? Focusing on Russia, we present a divergent form of food sovereignty. Building on the concept of ‘quiet sustainability’, we present a dispersed, muted, but clearly bottom-up variant we term ‘quiet food sovereignty’. In the latter, the role of the very productive smallholdings …
Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri‐food Sector: Risk and Regulation
This symposium introduction brings together two debates; the debate on global food prices and speculation, and the debate on so‐called global ‘land investment’ or ‘land grabbing’. Both debates are examining two sides of the same phenomenon – the growing role of private financial investors in the global agri‐food value chains and the myriad consequences of it. The symposium moves beyond the identification of finance as an exogenous factor to the t…
Multicultural Vanguard? Sarajevo’s Interethnic Young Adults between Ethnic Categorisation and International Spaces
This article analyses how Sarajevo\\xe2\\x80\\x99s young adults from a middle class, interethnic background deal with the \\nrigid ethnic categorisation enforced by state institutions and society. Their strategies (exit, reframing, and \\npartial separation) appear to be unsatisfactory to the actors themselves, and wield generally no influence on the \\ninstitutions they wish to change. Three factors have been setting into motion this dynamic: fi…
Running out of farmland? Investment discourses, unstable land values and the sluggishness of asset making
This article critically analyzes the assumption that land is becoming increasingly scarce and that, therefore, farmland values are bound to rise across the globe. It investigates the process of land value creation, as well as its flipside: value erosion and stagnation, looking at the various mechanisms involved in each. As such, it is a study of how the financialization of agriculture affects the process of land commoditization. I show that, for …
The complex dynamics of agriculture as a financial asset: Introduction to symposium
The stock market and the steppe: The challenges faced by stock-market financed, Nordic farming ventures in Russia and Ukraine
Corporate social responsibility, coexistence and contestation: Large farms’ changing responsibilities vis-à-vis rural households in Russia
This article investigates the regionally varied changes in social support and responsibilities of large-scale farms vis-à-vis household plot holders and their rural communities in post-Soviet Russia. Ongoing marketisation puts pressure on the Soviet-inherited symbiosis between large farms and household plots. We observe that large farms’ shift to Anglophone-style, explicit Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) hides declining support for villager…
Post-socialist smallholders: Silence, resistance and alternatives
nThe majority of the world’s smallholders live in countries that experience(d) socialism, but they largely remain invisible in agrarian studies. This special issue puts the spotlight on postsocialist smallholders, asking whether, and how, they (1) fulfil important functions in society; (2) engage in resistance (against the state or corporate actors); and (3) constitute an alternative to the industrial agri-food system. We find that post-socialist…
Introduction: Encounters After the Soviet Collapse: The Contemporary Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the former Soviet Union’s borders, cross border interactions between the former Soviet Union states and China have augmented, and particularly the impetus given by the Chinese authorities to the Belt and Road Initiative has increased the presence of various Chinese actors in the countries along China’s western border. Notably, China’s ‘going global’ has received increasingly scholarly a…
Persistent farmland imaginaries: Celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate
This article looks at how imaginaries of land and climate play a role in farmland investment discourses and practices. Foreign farmland investors in the fertile black earth region of Russia and Ukraine have ‘celebrated’ soil fertility while largely ignoring climatic factors. The article shows a centuries-long history of outsiders coming to the region lured by the fertile soils, while grossly underestimating climate which has had disastrous implic…
Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: Materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’
Over the past decade land has again moved to the centre of resource conflicts, agrarian struggles, and competing visions over the future of food and farming. This renewed interest in land necessitates asking the seemingly simple, but pertinent, question ‘what is land?’ To reach a more profound understanding of the uniqueness of land, and what distinguishes land from other resources, this symposium suggests the notion of ‘land imaginaries’ as a cr…
Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems
Drawing on our long-term research experiences, in this deliberately provocative but also reflexive paper we argue that international food and agriculture studies constitute a research area that would particularly benefit from insights obtained from research conducted in the world's peripheries-in this case, specifically from insights on East European food systems. Instead of seeing them as textbook case studies of undeveloped, traditional and hen…
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture
Towards a geography of window dressing and benign neglect: The state, donors and elites in Tajikistan’s trajectories of post-Soviet agrarian change
Western Agricultural Investors in Russia and Ukraine: From Fascination With Soil to Disappointment With Climate
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Artisanal fishers and COP29: Climate summit politics in Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea
The 2024 COP29 climate summit in Baku drew international attention to the Caspian Sea's ecological crisis, where delegates could observe oil rigs dotting rapidly receding waters. This article explores how artisanal fishers along Azerbaijan's Caspian shore navigate environmental degradation and marginalizing domestic policies while being excluded from climate diplomacy. Drawing on fieldwork and COP29 analysis, this article examines contradictions …
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